$STILLTRYstill trying to come home
A presumed-dead soldier claws his way back from a classified black-site prison only to discover his family has rebuilt without him and his hometown has been sold to the highest bidder.
A presumed-dead soldier claws his way back from a classified black-site prison only to discover his family has rebuilt without him and his hometown has been sold to the highest bidder.
Synopsis
After five years in an off-the-books detention facility, Sgt. Marcus Hale escapes and limps back to rural Ohio. The wife who mourned him has remarried; his daughter barely remembers his face; and the family farm sits under foreclosure by a lithium-mining conglomerate. Marcus refuses to vanish again. He takes a brutal night-shift job at the mine, sleeps in the woods, and begins quietly sabotaging the operation while trying to win back his child one stolen afternoon at a time. Every inch he gains toward home forces him to confront who he became in captivity and whether the man he used to be can still exist here.
The story
Marcus washes ashore in Florida with no ID and a burned face. He hitches to Ohio and watches his family from the treeline, learning his wife is engaged to the mine foreman.
He infiltrates the mine as a laborer, reconnects with his wary daughter through secret meetings, and begins a campaign of targeted sabotage that draws corporate security and federal investigators onto his trail.
Cornered at the flooded pit, Marcus chooses exposure over escape, forcing a televised confrontation that collapses the mine deal, reunites him with his daughter, and leaves him finally able to walk through his own front door in daylight.
The cast
Decorated infantry sergeant who survived five years of torture and isolation; now driven by a single, animal need to stand on his own porch again.
dream cast: Michael B. Jordan
Marcus’s wife who buried an empty casket, rebuilt a life for their daughter, and now must decide if she can open the door to a ghost.
dream cast: Gina Rodriguez
Nine-year-old who was told her father died a hero; she wants to believe the stranger in the woods but has learned not to trust promises.
dream cast: Cailey Fleming
Charismatic mine foreman and Elena’s fiancé who sees Marcus as both a romantic rival and an existential threat to the deal of a lifetime.
dream cast: Josh Brolin
Former squad mate now working security for the mine; torn between duty and the man who once saved his life.
dream cast: Oscar Isaac
Dream crew
in the style of Denis Villeneuve — patient, visceral emotional scale
in the style of Aaron Sorkin — moral stakes and crackling confrontations
in the style of Max Richter — aching, minimalist piano and strings
Cold open
INT. ATLANTIC OCEAN - NIGHT Black water. A body tumbles in the surf, coughing blood. MARCUS HALE (35, gaunt, scarred) drags himself onto wet sand. He claws at a plastic bracelet on his wrist until it snaps. He stands, swaying, staring at distant highway lights. MARCUS (whispers) Still trying. He starts walking toward the glow, leaving bloody footprints that the tide immediately erases. CUT TO: EXT. RURAL OHIO ROAD - DAWN Marcus hides behind a mailbox, watching a modest farmhouse. Through the kitchen window he sees ELENA (34) laughing with a MAN in a work shirt. A little girl, LILA (9), runs in and hugs the man’s leg. Marcus’s knees buckle. He stays low, breathing hard, eyes locked on the child.
Why now
Audiences exhausted by fractured families and disappearing hometowns are starving for a story about one man’s ferocious refusal to be erased; the film speaks directly to post-pandemic displacement, veteran reintegration failures, and the quiet war between corporate extraction and the human need for belonging.
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